Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.